What's the difference between meadowsweet and meadowwort?
Meadowsweet
Definition:
(n.) Alt. of Meadowwort
Example Sentences:
(1) Consumption of diets containing bearberry (Arctostaphylos uva-ursi), golden seal (Hydrastis canadensis), mistletoe (Viscum album) and tarragon (Artemisia dracunculus) significantly reduced the hyperphagia and polydipsia associated with streptozotocin diabetes, but bayberry (Cinnamomum tamala), meadowsweet (Filipendula ulmaria), senna (Cassia occidentalis) and the herbal mixture did not alter these parameters.
(2) Facebook Twitter Pinterest View over the Steigen archipelago We happen upon clumps of meadowsweet, also known as the mead plant.
Meadowwort
Definition:
(n.) The name of several plants of the genus Spiraea, especially the white- or pink-flowered S. salicifolia, a low European and American shrub, and the herbaceous S. Ulmaria, which has fragrant white flowers in compound cymes.